How to Make a Goat Skin Canvas | Painting for Preppers with Alastair Blain | The Cave of Apelles

How to Make a Goat Skin Canvas | Painting for Preppers with Alastair Blain

When the Western World falls and painters can no longer buy their supplies, we must source it ourselves.
This is where kitschmen become preppers,
this is where boys become men,
and goats become canvas.

Tools:
Small axe
Knife
Chisel
Saw
Sandpaper
A pot

Materials:
Goat skin
Rope
Leather strips
Hazel branches
Copper tacks
Alder cones

Chapter Marks:


00:31 STEP I: Wet scrape


03:39 STEP II: Making holes for stretching


04:34 STEP III: Stretching to dry


07:02 STEP IV: Dry scrape


09:08 STEP V: Harvesting alder cones & making a tannin brew


10:30 STEP VI: The tannin rub


16:18 STEP VII: Harvesting wood for the frame


20:27 STEP VIII: Cutting the hide


22:21 STEP IX: Stretching the hide onto the frame
28:01 IN THE STUDIO: Restretching and sizing?
30:58 Does the colour of the hide last?
32:03 Making egg tempera colours
41:15 How the paint behaves on the canvas

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  • Apelles was asked why he touched and retouched his pictures with so much care, to which he replied:
    "I paint for eternity"